Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Christian Borntraeger <> | Subject | [PATCH 9/9] kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCE | Date | Wed, 3 Dec 2014 23:30:21 +0100 |
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Now that all non-scalar users of ACCESS_ONCE have been converted to READ_ONCE or ASSIGN once, lets tighten ACCESS_ONCE to only work on scalar types. This variant was proposed by Alexei Starovoitov.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> --- include/linux/compiler.h | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index 947710e..5ba91de 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -441,8 +441,16 @@ static __always_inline void __assign_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int * merging, or refetching absolutely anything at any time. Its main intended * use is to mediate communication between process-level code and irq/NMI * handlers, all running on the same CPU. + * + * ACCESS_ONCE will only work on scalar types. For union types, ACCESS_ONCE + * on a union member will work as long as the size of the member matches the + * size of the union and the size is smaller than word size. + * If possible READ_ONCE/ASSIGN_ONCE should be used instead. */ -#define ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*(volatile typeof(x) *)&(x)) +#define __ACCESS_ONCE(x) ({ \ + __maybe_unused typeof(x) __var = 0; \ + (volatile typeof(x) *)&(x); }) +#define ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*__ACCESS_ONCE(x)) /* Ignore/forbid kprobes attach on very low level functions marked by this attribute: */ #ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES -- 1.9.3
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